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CENTROLEPIDACES. 
CENTROLEPIS NOVO-GUINEENSIS Gibbs, sp. nov. 
Planta perennis, densissime cespitosa, multifoliata. Folia basi vaginata, vagina 
hyalina, margine longe pilosa, lamina lineare, canaliculata, leviter seabriuscula, obtusa. 
Pedunculus gracilis, scabriusculus; glumis 2, inequalibus, calyptratis, margine 
hyalinis, unifloris. Flores bractea unica hyalina stipati. Stamen 1. Ovarium 
2-loculare, loculis 2, superpositis. Styli 2. 
Hab, Arfak Mts., Angi lakes. Abundant in marsh by 9 lake where 
open on sand, 7000’. FL, Fr. Dee. 5566.—Koebré ridge, abundant on 
open burnt summit, where damp, 9000’. Fl, Fr. 5646. 
Plants 2-4 em. high, with branched stems, all densely matted with white 
hairs at the base. Leaves 8 mm. long, with vagina 3 mm, long and 1 mm. 
broad, the lamina 4mm. by 5 mm. Peduncle 1:5-1'8 em. in length, much 
longer exserted in 5646, each bearing one spikelet, 4 mm. long. Glumes 2, 
the largest 3°5 mm. long, and the smaller 3mm. Hyaline bract 4 mm. long, 
ovate acute. Stamen with versatile anther 1 mm. in length; filament 
3°35 mm. long. Ovary 1:5 mm. long. Styles 3 mm. 
Very near C. philippinensis Merr., but is a smaller plant with shorter, 
radially arranged, spreading leaves, hairy at the base, with, as far as seen, 
one flower in each glume. 
This interesting record affords further striking proof of the wider 
distribution of a so-called Australian genus. One species alone was previvusly 
known from Asia, viz. C. cambodiana Hance, till Merrill in 1906 found 
C. philippinensis on Mt. Halcon at 2400 m. In 1910 !C. kinabaluensis was 
found by me in N. Borneo, on Mt. Kinabalu at 13,000’, which now, with 
the above, gives 4 well-defined Asiatic species, indeed 5, if an undescribed 
plant in the Kew Herbarium should belong to this genus; and no doubt 
further exploration of the magnificent mountain ranges of New Guinea with 
their unlimited possibilities will yield many more. 
1 CENTROLEPIS KINABALUENSIS Gibbs,=C. philippinensis W. B. Turrell, ex Gibbs 
in Journ. Linn, Soc., Bot. xlii. (1914) 172 (non Merr.). 
Planta perennis, 2-3 cm. alta, cespitosa. Folia disticha, imbricata, +1'2 cm. longa, vagina 
6 mm. longa, 2 mm. lata, hyalina, glabra, lamina 8 mm. longa, 5 mm. lata, obtusa, setosa. 
Pedunculus 1:2 em. longus; glumis 2, inequalibus, inferne latis concavisque, superne angustatis, 
apice obtusis, dorso carinatis, 45 mm. long. Flores 6-8, in quaque gluma 3-4, flos quisque 
bractea hyalina, 3°5 mm. longa. Filamentwm 3 mm, longum, anthera 1°2 mm, longa. Ovarium 
1:5 mm. longum, stylis 2 mm. 
Hab. Kinabalu, granite core, summit, cracks in granite, forming mats. Fl, Fr. Feb. 4207. 
A note of Turrell’s on the herbarium sheet at Kew states, “The number of flowers in a 
spikelet varies in this plant. I have found 4, 6 or 8 flowers in one spikelet. The Philippine 
type is described as having 4 flowers and all the flowers of Merrill 6160 that I have 
dissected have this number in each spikelet.” The plant also differs in the glabrous 
distichous leaves and the shape of the glumes, which have blunt apices. 
